Contested World Orders: Rising Powers, Non-Governmental Organizations, and the Politics of Authority Beyond the Nation-State

World orders are increasingly contested. As international institutions have taken on ever more ambitious tasks, they have been challenged by rising powers dissatisfied with existing institutional inequalities, by non-governmental organizations worried about the direction of global governance, and even by some established powers no longer content to lead the institutions they themselves created. For the first time, this volume examines these sources of contestation under a common and systematic institutionalist framework. While the authority of institutions has deepened, at the same time it has fuelled contestation and resistance. In a series of rigorous and empirically revealing chapters, the authors of Contested World Orders examine systematically the demands of key actors in the contestation of international institutions. Ranging in scope from the World Trade Organization and the Nuclear Non-proliferation Regime to the Kimberley Process on conflict diamonds and the climate finance provisions of the UNFCCC, the chapters deploy a variety of methods to reveal just to what extent, and along which lines of conflict, rising powers and NGOs contest international institutions. Contested World Orders seeks answers to the key questions of our time: Exactly how deeply are international institutions contested? Which actors seek the most fundamental changes? Which aspects of international institutions have generated the most transnational conflicts? And what does this mean for the future of world order?

Table of Contents:
List of figures List of tables List of contributors 1: Matthew D. Stephen and Michael Zürn: Rising Powers, NGOs and Demands for New World Orders: An Introduction Part 1 - World Economic Orders 2: Matthew D. Stephen: Contestation Overshoot: Rising Powers, NGOs and the Failure of the WTO Doha Round, 3: Alexandros Tokhi: The Contestation of the IMF 4: Dirk Peters: Exclusive Club Under Stress: The G7 between Rising Powers and Non-state Actors after the Cold War Part 2 - World Security Orders 5: Anja Jetschke and Pascal Abb: The Devil is in the Detail: The Positions of the BRICS Countries towards UN Security Council Reform and the Responsibility to Protect 6: Harald Müller and Alexandros Tokhi: The Contestation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime Part 3 - Human Rights and Environment 7: Martin Binder and Sophie Eisentraut: Negotiating the UN Human Rights Council: Rising powers, established powers and NGOs 8: Miriam Prys-Hansen, Kristina Hahn, Malte Lellmann, and Milan Röseler: Contestation in the UNFCCC: The Case of Climate Finance Part 4 - Cross-Cutting Cases 9: Melanie Coni-Zimmer, Annegret Flohr, and Klaus Dieter Wolf: Transnational Private Authority and Its Contestation 10: Martin Binder and Autumn Lockwood Payton: Cleavages in World Politics. Analysing Rising Power Voting Behaviour in the UN General Assembly 11: Michael Zürn, Klaus Dieter Wolf, and Matthew D. Stephen: Conclusion: Contested World Orders-Continuity or Change? Index